| Khadem Al Qubaisi Owned Hakkasan (HKK) Entertainment Empire As Part of the Vasco Trust Web Of Companies. On 24th October 2013 a team of lawyers from the New York law firm Greenberg Traurig (‘gtlaw’) emailed the Abu Dhabi based New Zealand lawyer, Jim Sullivan, at the time a Board Member of the wealth fund IPIC and also of its subsidiary Falcon Bank.
The CEO of IPIC, of course, was Khadem Al Qubaisi (KAQ), who is currently under arrest in Abu Dhabi and the subject of extensive anti-money laundering investigations in a number of countries. The subject of the email was the purchase of a $50 million penthouse in New York’s Walker Tower, one of the properties subject to a seizure notice by the US Department of Justice, owing to the fact that it was purchased through KAQ’s Vasco Investment Services SA (manager of his Vasco Trust in Luxembourg), which received over half a billion dollars stolen from Malaysia’s development fund 1MDB...............................................Full Article: Source
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